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* Free redistributable VMS O.S.Fabio Bizzi
+- Re: Free redistributable VMS O.S.Phillip Helbig (undress to reply
`- Re: Free redistributable VMS O.S.Simon Clubley

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Subject: Free redistributable VMS O.S.
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 by: Fabio Bizzi - Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:03 UTC

Hello,

does anyone know if vms is freely redistributable and if so, up to which
version?

Bitsavers has VMS up to version 5.5.2, can I suppose that from 1.5 to
5.5 is it free redistributable?

Many thanks. :)

Ciao.

Fabio.

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 by: Phillip Helbig (undr - Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:05 UTC

In article <tqligu$8k3$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Fabio Bizzi <fbizzi@bizzi.org>
writes:

> Hello,
>
> does anyone know if vms is freely redistributable

Yes (many people know).

> and if so, up to which
> version?

Source code? No versions.

> Bitsavers has VMS up to version 5.5.2, can I suppose that from 1.5 to
> 5.5 is it free redistributable?

Source code? No. No version of VMS is freely distributable.

The binaries, e.g. the installation CD? I was told by a DEC employee
that it is OK to borrow the media for installation. (Companies with
thousands of VMS machines don't have thousands of installation CDs for
the same version). Of course, one has to have a licence.

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 by: Simon Clubley - Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:22 UTC

On 2023-01-23, Fabio Bizzi <fbizzi@bizzi.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does anyone know if vms is freely redistributable and if so, up to which
> version?
>

No, it isn't. Sometimes you are allowed to download install kits from
a public place as part of a licence, and sometimes you are allowed to
borrow media if you also have a hobbyist licence, but apart from that,
it isn't freely redistributable.

> Bitsavers has VMS up to version 5.5.2, can I suppose that from 1.5 to
> 5.5 is it free redistributable?
>

No.

Also, having the media would do you no good unless you have a valid
hobbyist or other licence and the VAX hobbyist program is long over.

Simon.

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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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